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Preventing weapons of mass destruction proliferation : leveraging Special Operations Forces to shape the environment / by Lonnie Carlson, and Margaret E. Kosal.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Carlson, Lonnie, author.
- Kosal, Margaret E., author.
- Series:
- Occasional paper (Joint Special Operations University (U.S.). JSOU Press)
- JSOU Press Occasional Paper.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Special operations (Military science).
- Weapons of mass destruction--Government policy--United States.
- Weapons of mass destruction.
- Terrorism--United States--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- Nuclear nonproliferation--Government policy--United States.
- Nuclear nonproliferation.
- Nuclear warfare--United States--Prevention.
- Nuclear warfare.
- Nuclear nonproliferation--International cooperation.
- Nuclear nonproliferation--Government policy.
- Nuclear warfare--Prevention.
- Terrorism--Prevention.
- Weapons of mass destruction--Government policy.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Online resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (18 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
- Other Title:
- Leveraging Special Operations Forces to shape the environment
- Place of Publication:
- MacDill AFB, FL : Joint Special Operations University, Center for Special Operations Studies and Research, JSOU Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "U.S. Army Colonel Lonnie Carlson (Ph.D.) and Dr. Margaret Kosal argue that WMD expertise must be built within the SOF enterprise and that SOF must collaborate with government organizations (both U.S. and partner nation) to conduct WMD counterproliferation-related building partnership capacity (BPC) and operational preparation of the environment (OPE) activities. The authors look at SOF attributes and assert that it is within the irregular warfare domain that SOF have the greatest opportunity to improve WMD counterproliferation effectiveness. The authors present a brief explanation of WMD classifications, present an inventory of countries who possess weapons-grade nuclear material, and graphically present the potential cost versus probability of use for WMD types. Colonel Carlson and Dr. Kosal conclude that the U.S. Government and Department of Defense must build and leverage the global SOF network through CWMD OPE and BPC activities. Those activities can lead to the early warning needed to mitigate fleeting opportunities to eliminate catastrophic WMD risks."--Website.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- "Joint Special Operations University, Center for Special Operations Studies and Research."
- "January 2017."
- "Note: This paper was originally written as a U.S. Army War College research paper."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (viewed May 4, 2017).
- OCLC:
- 985465610
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